Prince Harry, just leave the poor lad alone!
This might be a bit late, but I've just watched a documentary on the Royal Family and once again Prince Harry's behaviour and conduct was brought up. Now this isn't a gripe about whether we should have a Royal Family, we have one, and they are there, and they are reported upon by the media.
But I'm sure that it must get extremely tiresome to hear people constantly commenting on your dress sense, your relationships, the way you live, where you live, where you work, and in Harry's case your parental heritage!
For a start, a lot was discussed when Harry went on active service to fight. He was accused of being selfish by putting other soldiers in danger because he would be a 'bullet magnet'. Well perhaps if the press had kept their mouths shut, and no one knew, there wouldn't have been a problem would there?
Then there's the comments he made that were labelled as racist. While I do not think that his comments were particularly complementary, is he really the only soldier that ever said something like that? I suspect (and as I don't know him, I don't know) that the tape wasn't meant for a public audience. Why was it headline news then? Was it because it was said by Prince Harry? Would the country be in such uproar if Joe Bloggs said the same things? They might not be happy, but I doubt there would be the same outcry!
Then there's his drinking and clubbing. How unusual, a twenty something bloke going out and getting drunk and having fun! He's just doing what everyone does! Cutting loose and having some fun! And as for the photographer that he got into an altercation with, he's not the only man to get into a scrap after a night on the tiles is he? And he must have been pretty sick of having a camera shoved up his nose every time he breathes! I think I would react in a similar way.
Leave the lad alone to do his job and live his life...
I know as a Royal he has a 'duty' to behave in a certain way, as he is a role model, but really, there's got to be a point where he can have a life surely? The Royals are not the exclusive property of the public, and in my opinion anyway, deserve to have a life and choose the way they live it. The average man in the street wouldn't stand to be told how to live his life and behave, unless the law was broken, so why should they? Both William and Harry had to lose their mother in such a public way and had to grieve in the public eye. That would be enough to screw anyone up, but they've hardly gone off the rails have they?
Leave the lad alone to do his job and live his life, he serves in the army and behaves like any other squaddie. Good on him!
By:Live and let live!
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Maybe they should be rented out the USA for 6 months of theyear, made to attend functions and the proceeds could be used to pay their own way when they were back in the UK>
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Personally, I'd say scrap the royal family and spend the money on something more worthwhile and better serving to the UK. What benefit does Joe Public on a minimum wage get from this? Absolutely nothing!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11967984
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Trimming the variety of courses is fine. Excluding all but the wealthy is immoral.
"How can we live without people who are fully qualified in all these subjects?"
You can scoff but those are the jobs our successive governments have left us with.
"Higher education is a privilege, not a right. It should only be subsidised by the taxpayer when the taxpayer can afford it"
The taxpayer cannot afford NOT to subsidize it. These kids are the future and before the hike, we were underperforming in education. This is a regressive policy.
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By getting degrees in subjects like hairdressing, beauty therapy, international football business management, Madonna studies, knitwear, golf course management and celebrity journalism?
How can we live without people who are fully qualified in all these subjects?
Higher education is a privilege, not a right. It should only be subsidised by the taxpayer when the taxpayer can afford it, and then only in a genuinely useful subject.
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grumpyoldwoman - 10-Dec-10 07:17
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What on earth was dear old charlie and his wifey doing in London when they knew there was this commotion?
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Rich and Poor - Black and whit - 9-Dec-10 23:55
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Just a bunch of pretty-faced do-gooders who do nothing meaningful for us. Born with a silver spoon and smile and wave and are so removed from real people.
Those who need them, crave for something that is missing in their own lives. Perhaps they should look else where and get real!
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Stop education cuts - 9-Dec-10 23:22
Nothing I expect. So why should we, in this country, have to pay anything?
I don't care that it only costs £1 each. Why should the role cost us anything at all? I didn't vote for the Royal family. I didn't vote for their expenditure. They are leaches on our economy. I would rather the money was spent on national health care.
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Let's spend the national f - 9-Dec-10 21:25
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Perhaps they should start charging fees for these services and then we would'nt need to have the civil list and they could finally shed the last vestiges of dignity.
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Ok, I don't mind if the Queen gets the minimum wage, after all its unski11ed work. You don't need a degree, or any qualification other than some vague genetic descent from Gort the Viking: even Prince Harry doesn't have to qualify for that.
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Wages for Scum - 16-Nov-10 20:50
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imaynotagreewithwhatyousaybut. - 16-Nov-10 19:48
The new government does seem to have some good ideas about reducing it: they are trying to get rid of some of the politically correct non jobs, like "diversity" officers, and a load of useless quangos and red tape.
I would like to see the Queen have a proper go at it though. She doesn't have anywhere near as much power as some people think.
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grumpyoldwoman - 26-Oct-10 08:35
Let's save some real public money on this.
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Re-engineeRing the Constitutio - 25-Oct-10 20:54
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